I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.
Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.
I was on call in a private hospital when one of my nurses developed abdominal pains.
I ran around despite resistance from the hospital's admin to ensure she got an Ultrasound (they wanted her to pay first!).
Results showed Acute Appendicitis. This private hospital refused to book her in for urgent surgery until she made a deposit of 750K (Ps-She works here and her salary is less than 180K).
We mobilized her and sent her with another nurse to a government hospital. She went to 4 different government hospitals and 'No bed space' was all they said and turned them back (not even minding she was a nurse!).
I had to ask them to bring her back to the private hospital where she finally had the surgery after myself and 3 other nurses including the patient signed to have deductions from our salaries till the debt was paid.
She had a ruptured appendix when we finally went in which changed the surgery from a simple appendectomy to an Ex-Lap. 750k became 1.6M and we had to pay it for 5 months till it was completed. She is fine now but just putting this out here.
For those asking for account details, this is her account.
Ololade is a 24-year-old lady who lost her vision due to a brain tumor after childbirth and can’t walk on her own.
She has a 5-month-old baby girl.
If you can help, please kindly do. 🙏🙏🙏
Few weeks after childbirth, Ololade developed a terrible headache which changed her vision, and it was discovered she had a brain tumor.
Her baby is just 5 months old. 😭😢
On March 19th at about 12:34pm. Some Government task force officials from Calabar Urban Development Authority rounded up children from the streets and took them away.
When we arrived, we found them on the ground. Feet bound, crying and shaking . Some too afraid to make a sound.
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